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...Take them to the luncheon in the Houses. For just one meal Harvard University Dining Services will let you have a taste of what they've been preparing at the faculty club while you've been served up generous helpings of General Wong's Chicken and Emerald Beef. Savor the penne with artichokes, take seconds of the endive salad, but do remind your parents that it's back to Sharon's Chicken on Monday and that the care packages should keep coming...
...Fortunately, there are other choices-including red meats that cook and taste much like beef. Horsemeat, long prized in France, has been undergoing a boom there, with sales up 59% in December. Bison, only half as fat as chicken and with 30% more protein than beef, is also winning new European fans. More unusual offerings are starting to make their way into some markets and restaurants. Among them: ostrich, emu and kangaroo, all of which are lean and tender red meats. But, like bison, they are much more expensive than beef. Beef aficionados also claim the big birds tend...
...Restaurants specializing in alternative meats are beginning to crop up across Europe. Le Carnivore in the French city of Nantes regularly serves up such delights as kangaroo brochette, ostrich tartare and bison steak. Wooloomooloo, an Australian restaurant in Berlin, has cleared beef off its menu and now features kangaroo, ostrich and crocodile. For the truly adventurous, the Springbok Café in Chiswick, west London, has been doing what owner Peter Gottgens calls a "roaring trade" in blesbok, impala, kudu, warthog and zebra. Since wild game roams freely and eats natural vegetation, Gottgens calls it "the ultimate organic meat-real organic...
...made organic, however, may emerge as the real winner in the current beef shakedown. German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder has declared his intention to reorient agricultural policy "in the interest of the consumer" by shifting aid from industrial "agrofactories" to organic farms. Agriculture Minister Renate Künast is aiming to increase the proportion of organically farmed land from 2.6% to 20% within the next 10 years. Even without more government aid, Europe's organic farmers are enjoying flush times. "Every time there's another bse scare, our customers increase," says Richard Counsell, an organic farmer in southwest England...
What's the billionaire beef? Basically this: revenue lost from repeal of the estate tax would mean additional tax on the middle class or a reduction in their benefits and services. Further, repeal would lead to a steep drop in charitable giving as the wealthy stop looking for ways to reduce their estates. So righteous are these superrich that, as reported by the New York Times, the only reason Warren Buffet didn't sign was because the petition doesn't go far enough in defending the estate tax, which he insists promotes success based on merit, not bloodline. Buffet likened...